Eventually You'll Get Pretend Cancer:
The Bizarre World of Candy Cigarettes

-or-
"Reach For A Lucky Instead Of A Sweet
Unless That Sweet Is A Lucky Or Something Like That"

For the past 100 years, a variety of chocolate, candy, and bubble-gum
confections have been manufactured that simulate the appearance of actual
cigarettes. For the first 65 or so years, the major cigarette corporations
either looked the other way or took an active part in ensuring that the
candy package reproductions were "faithful" to their less-appealing
tobacco brothers.
For some reason, a lot of people believe candy cigarettes were
"totally outlawed" in the United States sometime in the past,
when in actuality, the major players have remained one step ahead of
governmental regulation via sluggish self-policing and a strong
commitment to what ESPN would call "Extreme Hiding."
The links below will take you on a magical tour through the world of the
only candy product that sells so much more than itself.

If you have an extremely macho connection, you could look at the
big thumbnail page and see all of the candy cigarettes at one time.
The people who hang around here have gotten used to calling it the
BIG CANDY SMOKIN' THUMB.